Service Sheet for Sunday 24th August – Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Celebrant Fr. Benjamin Drury
Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
Processional: 343 (Redhead No. 46) Bright the vision that delighted
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 117
Gradual: 179 (Sussex) Saints of God! lo, Jesu’s people
Offertory: 205 (Regent Square) Christ is made the sure foundation
Communion: 302 (Song I) O Thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray
Recessional: 476 (Paderborn) Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim
All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.
Please remember that the chaplaincy in Athens neither receives funding from the British Government nor from the Church of
England. All donations are, therefore, very gratefully received.
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (66: 18-21)
The Lord says this: I am coming to gather the nations of every lan- guage. They shall come to witness my glory. I will give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud,
Moshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant islands that have never heard of me or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory to the nations. As an offering to the Lord they will bring all your brothers, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, on dromedaries, from all the nations to my holy mountain in Jerusalem, says the Lord, like Israelites bringing oblations in clean vessels to the Temple of the Lord. And of some of them I will make priests and Levites, says the Lord.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 117: Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News
O praise the Lord, all you nations,
acclaim him all you peoples! (Response)
Strong is his love for us;
he is faithful for ever. (Response)
A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (12: 5-17, 11-13)
Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are ad- dressed as sons? My son, when the Lord corrects you, do not treat it lightly; but do not get discouraged when he reprimands you. For the Lord trains the ones that he loves and he punishes all those that he acknowledges as his sons. Suffering is part of your training; God is treating you as his sons. Has there ever been any son whose father did not train him? Of course, any punishment is most painful at the time, and far from pleasant; but later, in those on whom it has been used,
it bears fruit in peace and goodness. So hold up your limp arms and steady your trembling knees and smooth out the path you tread; then the injured limb will not be wrenched, it will grow strong again.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus said: ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.
No one can come to the Father except through me.’ Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (13: 22-30)
Glory to you, O Lord.
Through towns and villages Jesus went teaching, making his way to Jerusalem. Someone said to him, ‘Sir, will there be only a few
saved?’ He said to them, ‘Try your best to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try to enter and will not succeed.
‘Once the master of the house has got up and locked the door, you may find yourself knocking on the door, saying, “Lord, open to us” but he will answer, “I do not know where you come from.” Then you will find yourself saying, “We once ate and drank in your company; you taught in our streets” but he will reply, “I do not know where you come from. Away from me, all you wicked men!”
‘Then there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves turned outside. And men from east and west, from north and south, will come to take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.
‘Yes, there are those now last who will be first, and those now first who will be last.’
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ
The setting of the Nicene Creed is on page 562 in the New English Hymnal.
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et thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy hum- ble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make
them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Tenth Sunday after Trinity)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 27th August: 10 a.m.; Low Mass
Friday 29th August: 7 p.m.; Low Mass: Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Sunday 31st August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass
Study group & pilgrimage walking group: to resume in September,
details from Fr. Benjamin
Harvest Festival: Kokotos Estate, Stamata (Saturday, 18th October); Christmas bazaar: Caravel Hotel (Sunday, 23rd November)
Coffee Morning: Thursday, 11th September (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.); in the churchyard.
Let thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make
them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Tenth Sunday after Trinity)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 27th August: 10 a.m.; Low Mass
Friday 29th August: 7 p.m.; Low Mass: Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Sunday 31st August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass
Study group & pilgrimage walking group: to resume in September,
details from Fr. Benjamin
Harvest Festival: Kokotos Estate, Stamata (Saturday, 18th October); Christmas bazaar: Caravel Hotel (Sunday, 23rd November)
Coffee Morning: Thursday, 11th September (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.); in the churchyard.
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the Church does not receive any
funding from the Church of England
or the British Government and is reliant
on the goodwill of congregants and visitors. We thank you for your support.
Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;
Home tel.: 210 72 14 906
anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)
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